your Literary heroes

[MarvinAndroid42]

Who do you want to write like?

Of the people I've read, I personally want to have the style and structuring of Leo Tolstoy, conversations like Jane Austen's and entertainment value of Alexandre Dumas.

* what a weird^ novel that would be!

 

[DharmaBum]

Who do you want to write like?

Of the people I've read, I personally want to have the style and structuring of Leo Tolstoy, conversations like Jane Austen's and entertainment value of Alexandre Dumas.

* what a weird^ novel that would be!

I like the clean crisp style of Hemingway. Then throw in the humor/wit of Joseph Heller and John Irving.

 

[tanya88]

I'd like to write like L M Montgomery

 

[fallupchik]

sarah dessen, she is awesome!!!

 

[Lessien]

I want to write like C.S. Lewis. His style is awesome--beautiful and gripping, but the great stories aren't weighed down with unneccessary imagery or description.

 

[NeoScribe]

Robert J. King. He seems to portray a whole world with a few simplw words. And the situational irony in his books is just plain amusing.

 

[Nyssa]

Angela Carter's style is gorgeous. That's my impossible ideal I'd love to be able to imitate Jude Morgan or Philippa Gregory.

 

[Eryk]

T. S. Eliot

R. A. Lafferty

 

[Morghaine]

Bernard Cornwell comes to mind - and I like Diana Gabaldon's style as well - humerous, yet well written descriptively.

 

[Moros]

HL Mencken, or Kafka.

 

[elf_lady_9]

J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis

i like L.M. Montgomery and Jane Austin too

 

[Jenka]

I would love to have the writing style of Stephen King, using his abilities to keep readers glued to his pages, wating for the next flash of genius, mixed with the story-telling abilities of the Grimm Brothers, they have a lyrical sense about them, that I always strive to copy, as well as J.M. Berrie who I admire greatly

Your Humble Servant,
-Jenka

 

[stonetoflesh]

My literary heroes would probably be Jack Vance, Clark Ashton Smith, and Gene Wolfe, with a bit of Jorge Luis Borges thrown in for good measure...

 

[moogoob]

Neal Stephenson. His books can have an action-filled war scene followed by a math equation(and subsequent functional description of WWII-era one-time-pad encryption) followed by a four-page description of how the main character eats Cap'n Crunch.

All of which are found in his novel Cryptonomicon.

 

[4jesus247]

sarah dessen, she is awesome!!!

i love love love sarah dessen. but i also love jane austen!

 

[elf_lady_9]

i love love love sarah dessen.

ooo, i love sarah dessen too!! The Truth About Forever is one of my favorite teen books.

 

[favored_one]

Neal Stephenson. His books can have an action-filled war scene followed by a math equation(and subsequent functional description of WWII-era one-time-pad encryption) followed by a four-page description of how the main character eats Cap'n Crunch.

All of which are found in his novel Cryptonomicon.

I love this guy!! I read Snow Crash and fell in love. I started Cryptonomicon because of the rave reviews but then found out the characters were intoduced previously. Now starting over to read all of his books!

I am also trying to read Gravitys Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. Those parts of his work that I can actually understand are hilarious and genius. His thought process is what amazes me!

 

[FluffyBadger]

here are a few- Hemmingway,Herman Melville(Moby Dick) for suspense-Gregg Hurwitz